The massive advantage of using Slimserver rather than a standard uPNP server is customisation. You get a web frontened that can be tailored pretty much however you want it. It is also single purpose, it doesn't have compromised becuase of having to deal with different devices with different capabilities.
Do uPNP servers have an extensive range of plugins for them? AlienBBC is a good example of what is possible with SlimServer vs any-other-server. I'm sure the SB3/Transporter is powerful enough these days to be able to do a lot of the things traditionally done by SlimServer. However if this happened no-one other than SD would be able to make changes to the software as it requires a $10,000 development kit to produce the firmware. As opposed to downloading from SVN and editing the Perl yourself (if you are that way inclined). -- funkstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29706 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
